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For reference, @nilakshibhosale resolved this and posted his solution onto this thread.

Hi @colin , thank you a lot, it's working fine.

Hi @johnnyu , This thread should help, it's asking the same thing. Cheers, Colin

This is where DataTables does ensure that the Ajax response is drawn only for the latest request. If that isn't working for you, can you link to a page showing the issue please? Also you might want to consider upping the searchDelay default to increase the delay before a search is performed. Allan

this example for select filtering. You can build the

I found out that I can just use the data-sort attribute on the element? Like on the following: <table> <thead> <tr> <td>Name</td> <td>Age</td> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>John Doe</td> <td data-sort="37">2/1/78 (37 years old)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jane Doe</td> <td data-sort="35">12/1/80 (35 years old)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> I found the anser here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7668047/how-can-i-get-jquery-datatables-to-sort-on-hidden-value-but-search-on-displayed

@colin We all have those.. Thanks this worked.

ok, Im blind :/ thank U!

the advantage of mine was that it had the creation of dynamic checkboxes and considering my use, I need them.

By default Datatables search uses and not or for searching between the columns. You can customize the search by creating a search function as shown in this example: https://datatables.net/examples/api/regex.html You would change the search mode to regex and use the regex or operator of |. To see how it works check the Treat as regex and uncheck the Use smart search options for the Global Search input. Then in the Global Search type air and you will see one response with the name Airi Satou. Follow that with |lon resulting in air|lon in the Global Search. In addition to Airi you will see all of the rows that have London. Kevin